Hillary's New Media Strategy: Play Evita
By W. James Antle III, July 9, 2015
Washington Examiner
Washington Examiner
Hillary Clinton has a strategy for dealing with the media: play Evita. The former first lady, secretary of State and New York senator doesn't have time for the Fourth Estate because she is a woman of the people.
"I'm not running my campaign for the press," she told CNN in a rare interview Tuesday. "I'm running it for voters."
That's a canny response to questions about her campaign's tendency to shut out the press, which includes roping off the media, giving a critical reporter the boot from the press pool, and keeping such tight reins on journalists at events that one reporter said she was escorted to the ladies' room by an aide while covering a Clinton Global Initiative event.
The press, after all, plays a big role in how the voters learn about the candidates.
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